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Bill: Market Rate Housing Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Maroon Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2110
Description[?]:
| The government should not provide public housing or engage in silly urban renewal projects, often involving the seizure of private property. These projects turn poor but vibrant neighborhoods into run down slums for drug dealers, petty criminals, and inescapable poverty and ignorance. Meanwhile, the middle-class people that cities depend on for their tax base will move out to escape escalating crime, trapping the poor in urban areas with no realistic hope of advancement. Instead, we should subsidize rents for those on low incomes or build market-rate housing for them. A private apartment owner has an incentive to screen tenants and take care of his property far more than bureaucrats do, and thus will allow the poor to afford mixed-income housing, so that they don't develop a destructive culture and are able to get an education and advance upwards socially. This way, we fight homelessness without destroying our cities. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Current: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Proposed: All housing is privately-owned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:42:55, September 12, 2005 CET | From | Maroon Party | To | Debating the Market Rate Housing Act |
| Message | We should not isolate the poor in their own communities, but rather, through subsidies, allow them to afford to live in apartments that others in society live in, to encourage tolerance and mutual learning. |
| Date | 21:21:25, September 12, 2005 CET | From |  Dorvik Social Democrats | To | Debating the Market Rate Housing Act |
| Message | Your arguments are convincing. |
| Date | 18:45:35, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Noordelijk Bevrijding Front | To | Debating the Market Rate Housing Act |
| Message | I have to admit it, also this will take the burden off government expenditure |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 200 | ||||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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